The 999 Challenge

Dates: January 1st through September 9th, 2009

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The Challenge (put simply): Read nine books from each of nine categories of your own choosing. Nine books may overlap with one another.

My list (again, I'm just doing this unofficially):

Young adult:
1. A Bottle in the Gaza Sea by Valerie Zenatti
2. American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang
3. The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents by Terry Pratchett
4. The Tale of One Bad Rat by Bryan Talbot
5. Nation by Terry Pratchett
6. Janes in Love by Cecil Castellucci and Jim Rugg
7. The Body of Christopher Creed by Carol Plum-Ucci
8. Pemba's Song by Marilyn Nelson and Tonya C. Hegamin
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War theme (fiction and/or non-fiction):
1. House of Stone: The True Story of a Family Divided in War-Torn Zimbabwe by Christina Lamb
2. Fax From Sarajevo by Joe Kubert
3. ...I never saw another butterfly...: Children's Drawings and Poems from Terezin Concentration Camp, 1942-1944
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Set in countries other than U.S.:
1. And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
2. A Bottle in the Gaza Sea by Valerie Zenatti
3. In the Land of Invisible Women: A Female Doctor's Journey in the Saudi Kingdom by Qanta A. Ahmed, MD
4. Javatrekker: Dispatches from the World of Fair Trade Coffee by Dean Cycon
5. No More Strangers Now interviews by Tim McKee
6. Legend of Chun Hyang by CLAMP
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Children's Classics:
1. The House With the Clock in Its Walls by John Bellairs
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Science Fiction:
1. The Stainless Steel Rat's Revenge by Harry Harrison
2. The Dead & the Gone by Susan Beth Pfeffer
3. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
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Borrowed from Rich:
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Borrowed from Annie:
1. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
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Novellas (less than 250 pages):
1. And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
2. The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett
3. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
4. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
5. Pemba's Song by Marilyn Nelson and Tonya C. Hegamin
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One-word titles:
1. Rose by Jeff Smith
2. Skim by Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki
3. Normal by Amy Bloom
4. Affluenza by John De Graaf, David Wann, and Thomas H. Naylor
5. Normal by Amy Bloom
6. Affluenza by DeGraaf, Winn, and Naylor
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